I was talking about the Big12 tournament but your point is well taken. I'll remember this comment though when Tech goes 8 for 35 and loses by 5 down the road somewhere.
*** Official #16 Texas Tech vs #4 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***
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Batemon has been pretty good since the KU game. % wise he is our second best shooter behind Milan and you have to account for him. Lipsey and Toure aren’t threats offensively but they’re good defensively so it’s a dilemma. I think if we want to make a run you can’t have Lipsey and Toure on the floor at the same time since neither one of them does much offensively it allows opposing defense to pack the lane which creates issues for Jefferson. Just my take but I’m only a couch fan
I'm not disappointed, as I never thought of ISU as a #01 seed. In order for ISU to be #01 seed material, they should either be Big XII Regular Season Champ or in the hunt until the end and Big XII Tournament Champion. Not trying to be a Debby Downer, just never thought of ISU as # 1 seed material. That being said, they are having a very good year, should be a 2 or a 3 seed and should make the Sweet 16. That much I expect. Anything above that is G-R-A-V-Y in my book. Anything below that is B-U-S-T.
They certainly play it harder and longer defensively when our 3s are dropping and we are creating turnovers and aren't turning it over a ton ourselves. If I wish for one thing for the rest of the season it's for a high percentage of our 3s to go in when we take them...like Tech did yesterday. When we do that, the rest of those things take care of themselves. Our guards, offensively, have to be better shooting the 3...simple as that.
Which is obviously more likely to happen than them winning the championship.
So congrats!
It's not an identity of this team. But it's a nice surprise when they come out and play that way. They don't even do that in games they win all the time for what it's worth.
You didn't think Iowa State was #1 seed material when we were 23-3, still in contention for the conference title, all metrics pointing to us having an elite overall resume, and the NCAA committee (a body that has literally never given us respect or the benefit of the doubt in any situation ever, is job it is to seed a giant tournament in the order of strength of teams) actually gave us real respect by telling the world "yeah Iowa State is a #1 seed if the tourney were today"?
I am not even sure Debbie Downer is the right term. You were hedging with your Cyclone nut cup on. Which I can respect to some degree, but like it or not - we very much were on a very real path for a #1 seed in the tournament. That's not debatable; the path was factually there. The idea that we can retroactively tweak expectations so we don't get disappointed is a weird Cyclone coping mechanism.
I don't see what's so wrong about calling these last 8 days what it is - a very disappointing missed opportunity. Hell, had we beaten BYU and Tech (which we were favored to do), and lost at Arizona, we're still in the conversation for a #1 seed. Losing 2 of the last 3 was the worst possible scenario.
Short answer is no, I didn't. Not retro-active at all. I know the path was there, I just didn't see Iowa State finishing the deal. I just don't think they are the best of the best and deserved a #01 seed or would be a Final Four threat. I've been following ISU basketball for 30-something years, and I do not see anything that puts this team above the best ISU team of all-time (1999-2000) which was a # 2 seed and made the Elite 8. They are good. Very good. I just do not think they are elite. Hope I am wrong though!
I'm assuming this isn't a serious question but in case it is - coaches don't care about the number of fouls. They care - every time a whistle is blown (for any reason), or a whistle is not blown (for any reason), they are fighting/yelling/politicing for those situations to lean more favorably to their team, and critically - at the right time. That's it. Add in the fact that lots of teams (like Iowa State) often foul by design via physical play, the number of fouls called isn't the concern. Plenty of times Iowa State gets favorable rulings and favorable games from officials even when we are called for way more fouls.
Why does Kansas seem have ALL the bounces and luck in Phog down the stretch of games!? Why don't ya ever see a Kansas travel called with like 2 minutes left? Because an official has been listening to Self in his ear for 38 minutes.
That doesn't seem like a winning strategy in a tournament environment...
What's the worst that could have happened yesterday if ISU had tried an alternate defense to counter TTs 3FG shooting?
TT was shooting around 40% 3FG in conference. I don't quite understand how double-teaming and giving them open looks was somehow supposed to counteract that. If you are going to give up a bunch of open shots to the second best shooting team in the conference, that double-teaming defense is going to have to generate a much bigger turnover margin than ISU had yesterday to counteract that and win the game. ISU turned TT over 4 above TT's average, which is good against a top-15 team, and 2/3 of the game was still double digit lead for TT.
We usually get all the calls at Hilton too. You're ******* nuts if you don't think coaches want fouls called in the other team. Generally the team that shoots more free throws wins.
That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. You do what you do beat. You don't experiment with things in the tournament. Teams and coaches live and die with what they do. I've never seen a bigger crybaby overreacting fanbase as ours.
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Looking at the remaining two weeks of the schedule and watching and seeing how ISU's athletic disadvantage could be a problem would help to realize it wasn't much of a missed opportunity as much as it is reality.
BYU had ISU physically pegged at every position, and Tech was similar.
Even in the Houston win when ISU got down ten many on here were conceding that Houston was just much more athletic. ISU gutted that out and had some later and kind of wild shots to fall which was great but not sustainable.
Monday should be interesting and ASU is another not good team but capable of beating ISU.
I think the argument is it seems ISU is not bringing the intensity for an entire game vs the top competition 7-10 games ….not against Grambling , Stone Hill, and Alcorn State.
Nolan Richardson did it.
We can too.
You know it.
40 Minutes of Hell ……
And for all 94 feet.
Speaking of 94
It won Nolan a National Championship in 1994. Vs Duke.
Hmmm
And just came up short in the 1995 Championship Game vs. UCLA!
In probably an overly-simplistic analysis, I think it’s as simple as not relying on lineups that have three sub-33% 3-point shooters on the floor. Heise, Toure, Lipsey, and Buchanan are 0 threat from the perimeter (or even the mid range).
To get them call the fouls that are fouls!!
This whole notion that "they can't call everything that is a foul" is ********.
Their job is to officiate the game and call fouls that are fouls. So spare me the "oh we shot more free throws bs" because quite frankly that doesn't mean ****.
